Senior Support Worker

Senior Support Worker

Elysium Healthcare is looking for a Senior Support Worker to join Castleholme Lodge in Huddersfield. This role involves supporting people with continuing challenging behaviour and high support needs, enabling them to lead a full and valued life.

You will work as part of an inclusive and supportive team dedicated to providing care for people with mental health conditions. You will use your skills to help change the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in society.

Key responsibilities include:

• Organising and overseeing the smooth running of a shift
• Ensuring the wellbeing of all service users
• Responding to challenges or concerns
• Supervising support staff
• Organising activities
• Administering medication
• Communicating with families and professionals
• Overseeing daily reports and budgets
• Completing financial audits and H&S checks

• Experience as a Senior Support Worker or extensive care experience in mental health and hold the NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
• Leadership skills and experience
• Strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
• Willingness to support residents with personal hygiene
• Excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
• Ability to deal with challenging behaviours
• A positive and professional approach
• Reliability, flexibility, hard‑working and honesty
• Being local or within commutable distance

Castleholme Lodge – 4 Bryan Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield, HD2 2AH
. The mixed‑gender 20‑bed care home offers a range of mental health services for adults with severe and enduring mental health difficulties.

• Annual salary of £25,936
• 33 days annual leave pro rata (incl. bank holidays) – plus your birthday off!
• Free meals and parking
• Wellbeing support and activities to maintain a great work‑life balance
• 24‑hour GP service
• Career development and training
• Pension contribution
• Life Assurance
• Enhanced maternity package

Elysium Healthcare is an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees. It operates a network across England and Wales in mental health, neurological, learning disabilities & autism, children & education sectors, and offers opportunities for growth. The company is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network of over 86,000 employees.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

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Hospitals and Health Care